Matthias Neumann is Professor of Modern History at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, United Kingdom. He has published widely on the history of childhood and youth in revolutionary Russia, and is interested in cultural/citizen diplomacy during the Cold War.
Prof Matthias Neumann
His book The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1917-1932 was published by Routledge in 2011, translated to Spanish and was published in South America 2019. Neumann is the co-editor of volume entitled Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide: Tradition, Rupture and Modernity which was published with Routledge in 2017. He is also the President of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES), a co-editor of History: The Journal of the Historical Association and associate editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. His current research project examines cultural exchange programmes which enabled American children to visit the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
